The most
effective, though hardly nice or democratic, way to deal with social
rivals or political opponents is to brand them as something abhorrent.

In medieval
Europe it was as "heretics" or "non-believers"; in McCarthy's America,
as "communists"; in Soviet Russia, as "reactionaries"; in modern
Western democracies it is "racists".

It is the
power politics of the (self-righteously) assumed "moral high ground",
based, opportunistically in this instance, on the extreme opposite of
the Nazi's insane and abhorrent racial ideology (in which "race" was
the single determinant of national identity and superiority), still so
shockingly fresh in our collective memory.

This is why
the Tory candidate, Nigel Hastilow, had to resign.

Where, I ask,
are the social scientists (psychologists, sociologists, historians,
etc.), as well as the evolutionary biologists and anthropologists, who
should be casting a light into the darkness to reveal what "Homo
sapiens"(!) is up to here?